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"I only hope it will not be the worse for you in the end, and that you will not wish you had listened to poor Loveday's advice." "I can never wish to have done what I know to be a great sin," said Aurelia gravely. "Ah! you little know!" said Loveday, shaking her head sadly and ominously. Something brought to Aurelia's lips what she had been teaching the children last Sunday, and she answered,
Loveday's particular temperament soothed her down. "I'm falling in love with her," she admitted to Wendy. "I was taken with her, of course, the moment I saw her, but I believe now I'm going to have it badly. I think she's beautiful! If there were a Peach Competition, she'd win at a canter."
At first she thought they were disturbed by being partly in contact with the boughs of her bush; but in a moment Robert Loveday's face peered from them, at a distance of about a yard from her own. Anne uttered a little indignant 'Well! recovered herself, and went on plucking. Bob thereupon went on plucking likewise.
The horse was not Miller Loveday's, but a powerful bay, bearing a man in full yeomanry uniform. Anne did not wait to recognize further; instantly re-entering the house, she shut the door and bolted it. In the dark she sat and listened: not a sound.
Then a sound followed like somebody sliding down three steps at once, and Loveday's voice, with words indistinguishable, but tone still highly indignant, grew fainter and farther away till it ceased altogether. Diana smiled rather bitterly. "It's not much use her coming and talking to me," she thought. "If she wants to tell anybody, she can tell Miss Todd. She needn't think I'll give her away.
It was very cold, indeed, in the water, far colder than she had expected; it made her gasp for breath, and sent a numbness into her limbs. She struggled on, however, with brave strokes. "Di ana!" screamed Loveday's agitated voice behind her. The girls in the boat were not even looking. How fearfully cold it was! It was difficult to hold up her head properly and see where she was going.
There was a silence full of Loveday's smile. "But", said O'Hara, "what I meant is this: you know what I have been to Hogarth; without me, what could the poor fellow have done, after all? I have taught him to think, to dance, and to dine. Now, then, I ask you right out frankly am I, my son, in the list of Admirals?" Loveday, flushing, started upright, and sank back.
My strength was giving way; my head swam, my sides ached terribly, my legs almost refused to obey my will, and a thousand lights danced and sparkled before my eyes, but still I kept on, now staggering, now stumbling, but still onward, nor stopped until I stood before Uncle Loveday's door.
Having entered into this solemn compact with his son, the elder Loveday's next action was to go to Mrs. Garland, and ask her how the toning down of the wedding had best be done. 'It is plain enough that to make merry just now would be slighting Bob's feelings, as if we didn't care who was not married, so long as we were, he said. 'But then, what's to be done about the victuals?
Linking her arm in Loveday's, Diana dragged her friend upstairs, away from the eyes and ears of inquisitive juniors, who were veritable little pitchers where their elders' affairs were concerned. It was only when they were in the safety of their own sanctum that she fully unbosomed herself. "Somebody else is coming to England. It's my brother Giles.
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